Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of DemocracyHarper & Row, 1963 - 428 páginas Herbert J. Muller examines the meaning of freedom in the great civilizations of the past including the Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, Persian, Phoenician, Greek, Roman and early Christian. Ranging from the attempts of the cave man to free himself from the tyranny of nature through magic and ritual, to the religious despotism of Byzantium, the author surveys freedom's gains and triumps, its losses and failures. In doing so, he provides the reader with new insight into the meaning and destiny of freedom in Western Civilization. |
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... effort to improve society or reform the state . It recalls us to an evident ab- surdity in the description of Islam as the " first real democracy . " For Islam never produced an actual democracy , never stimulated any con- certed efforts ...
... effort to improve society or reform the state . It recalls us to an evident ab- surdity in the description of Islam as the " first real democracy . " For Islam never produced an actual democracy , never stimulated any con- certed efforts ...
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... effort to revive about the only kind of large state known in the past - empire . Empire was essentially different from the nation - state in that it embraced peoples of different tongues , creeds , and traditions , united only by ...
... effort to revive about the only kind of large state known in the past - empire . Empire was essentially different from the nation - state in that it embraced peoples of different tongues , creeds , and traditions , united only by ...
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... effort at good taste and good sense , a salutary phase in the development of European culture as a mature effort at consolidation . There is no reason to wonder why the Age of Louis XIV set the literary standards for all western Europe ...
... effort at good taste and good sense , a salutary phase in the development of European culture as a mature effort at consolidation . There is no reason to wonder why the Age of Louis XIV set the literary standards for all western Europe ...
Contenido
The Rise and Fall of Islam | 1 |
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | 25 |
The Medieval Sources of Freedom | 47 |
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Freedom in the Western World: From the Dark Ages to the Rise of Democracy Herbert Joseph Muller Vista de fragmentos - 1963 |
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